Self-locking galley



(No Model.)

J'. H. YOUMANS.

SELF LOOKING GALLEY.

No. 397,264. Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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INVENTOR:

UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcs.

J. HATFIELD YOUMANS, OF ASBURY PARK, NEIV JERSEY.

SELF-LOCKING GALLEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,264, dated February5, 1889.

Application filed November 16, 1887. Serial No. 255,302. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J. HATFIELD YOUMANS, of Asbury Park, in the countyof Monmouth and State of N ew Jersey, have invented a new and ImprovedSelf-Locking Galley, of which the following is a full, clear, andexactdescription.

This invention relates to an improvement in printers galleys, and hasfor its object to provide a galley which can be easily adjusted andfastened and will be automaticallylocked.

The invention consists in a printers galley constructed as hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention,

showing the type-holding strip moved partly forward. Fig. 2 is across-section on line a; .r,

Fig. 1.

In the present construction of printers galleys the movable type-holdingstrip in the galley is locked or fastened in place to hold the type bymeans of wedge-shaped pieces or blocks hammered in between thetype-holding strip and the side of the galley. This involves a good dealof trouble, and, as the parts when not in use are loose, they are a'ptto be misplaced or lost. By means of the present invention theseobjections are obviated and the type is easily and quickly locked in thegalley.

1 indicates a printer's galley, having the sides 2 and type-holdingstrip The latter is moved forward and back preferably by means offinger-sockets -l-, as they are not in the way, and is guided in itsmovement by rods 5, extending into holes (J in said strip. To hold thestrip 3 against the type and lock it in position, it is connected withthe side of the galley by disks 7 eccentrically pivoted by pins 13 inrecesses 8 therein, and having slots 9 engaging pins 10, mounted inrecesses 11 in strip The pins 10 are provided with wing-nuts 12, wherebythe disks 7 may be clamped to strip 3 and hold the latter in anyposition to which it may be adjusted. The recesses 8 and 11 are of suchshape as to permit the eccentric movement of disks 7 therein. When thestrip 3 is fully brought forward, the pins 10 are located in the outerends of the slots 9, and .the outer ends of slots 9 will be in suchrelative position to pins 13 of disks 7 that the pins 10 cannot rideback in slots 9 and push back disks 7. In this way the strip isautomatically locked when fully drawn forward, and the wing-nuts 12 neednot be tighten ed. To unlock the strip 3, the disks 7 may be pushedslightly to the left, when the strip 3 becomes free to be moved back.

In order that the bar or stick 3 may be automatically locked when thrownfully forward, it is necessary that the slats 9 shall extend to orslightly beyond points diametrically opposite the axes or pivots 13, andthat the latter and the pins 10 shall be in alignment with each otherand with the direction of movement of the bar or stick.

By way of illustrating the advantages of this construction, I wouldstate that in practice the typespace, when the bar or stick is thrownfully forward and automatically locked, will just receive a standardquantity of typesay thirteen ems pica wide 'which is the standard sizeof newspaper-columns. At points beyond the standard adopted for thetype-space the thumb-screws will be brought into use for locking thebar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claiin as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A printers galley comprising the rectangular frame, the movable baror stick therein, and the disks or plates pivoted eccentrically to theframe and having curved slots extending toor beyond points diametricallyopposite the pivots, and pins extending through the slots into the baror stick, said pivots and pins being in alignment with each other andwith the direction or line of movement of the bar or stick, whereby thebar or stick will be antomatically locked when thrown fully forward,substantially as set forth.

2. The herein -described printers galley, comprising the frame 2,sliding bar or stick 3 therein, the disks 7, pivoted at 13 eccentricallyto the frame, and having curved slots 9, extending at their outer endsto points in line with or beyond diametrical lines through the poini'sgreatest eccentricity of said diskgthe reetion 01 line of movement ofthe bar, subpins 1.0, projecting from the bar or stick 3 stanmlly as andfor the purpose herein set through the slots 2], and. the binding-nuts12 forth.

on said. pins, the said pivots, outer terminals of the slots, and 1hepins 10 being, when the bar is thrown fully ilferwmx'i, in approxin'iaiealignment-with eneh other and with he di- J. TIATIFIELI) YOUMANS.

\V itnesses:

JEREMIAH LYFORD, Lmvrs II. 'BARMORE.

